This name is on St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Richard William Ashford)
Service no M2/184031
Private, Army Service Corps, 150th Field Amb.
Died on 12 April 1918, aged about 29
Enlisted at Lambeth
Remembered at Varennes Military Cemetery, France
Brother of Edward Ashford.
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Richard Ashford, a 22-year-old taxi driver, lived at 125 Wandsworth Road, one of nine surviving children of William Ashford, 49, a taxi driver, originally from Wattisfield, Suffolk, and Emma Ashford, 45, born in Battersea, south-west London. His siblings were
Emma Ashford, born 1885, a dressmaker, born in Battersea
Albert Edward Ashford, born 1890, an unemployed box maker, born in Battersea
Henry Ashford, born 1892, an apprenticed compositor, born in Westminster
Edward Ashford, born 1895, a solicitor's clerk, born in Westminster
Charles Walter Ashford, born 1899, born in Westminster
Alice Louisa Ashford, born 1902, born in Westminster
Arthur Leonard Ashford, born 1905, born in Westminster
George Herbert Ashford, born in 1909, born in Westminster